welcome back to PJ Chen design. today we are going to talk about how to make
this shadow band with the milgrain to go with this engagement ring. are you ready
let's get started.
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this matching band, ple,ase go ahead to sign up our mailing list and download
the STL practice file. once you get the STL file please coming to the file then
you have import, then you can import the STL file that you download from the link.
then we will have this to practice on. we are going to come to the top view. you
may notice that this a little bit bump because the middle stone is a little bit
bigger. so if you are going to make a ring band is completely flat you may
have a gap over there. so our goal today is to make a matching band that will
compensate with the curvature over here. that's coming into the top view, and we
are going to draw something like that. let's go ahead to draw a straight line
and coming over here. the stone in the middle is a cushion shape. I gotta
come in here with a rectangle conic corners. make sure you starting with the
center snapping into the zero, and I want to hold the shift key so okay something
like this to be squared, and then I can kind of moving in and out to get really
close to what I have over there. we are going to pick up those both of a curve,
and let's go ahead to trim the part that we don't need it, and all we need to do
is click join. I'm also going to lock this one. so we won't accidentally to
click it. the ring size for this one is sixteen point ninety two, so we want to
use we want to draw a circle with sixteen point nine two for our ring size
after we draw that curve, we want to come back to look at this one try to avoid
really sharp angle over here. so I'm going to use a Fillet and giving
something a very big radius maybe like two and click
here and here to make it a little bit smoother. so then we will have this one
over here. let's take a look on the perspective view. we're going to make a
curve that follow both this curve and also our ring size. so we are going to
use the command curve front 2 views, and we're gonna click on this one and also
click on this one that. allowed us to create this curve. let me change into the
red color and as you can see it follow the ring really nicely. we are going to
use this one to trim off the bottom. because the bottom will try to keep it
flat and rounded. alright so we might need to do additional edit over there, but
let's go ahead to creating a profile. I'm going to create a profile similar like
the ring that I have. let's go ahead to creating some sort of a rectangle and it
is similar with the high on our engagement ring for whatever width that
you are going to have, and basically what I like to do is to mimic this curvature
so I'm going to using the art tool snapping here and here, and snapping
right in the midpoint using that to trim of the extra over here, and here.
let's go ahead to join this together and then we are going to use the very
corners and for something really small like point two to make it nice and round
the edges. I might want to increasing the thickness just a little bit to make it
more close to the original ring shank. okay so now we have that one. let's go
ahead to mirror to the other side by typing a zero as our axis. so now we have
this one, we can give it a try. we are going to use the sweep one rail. this is
the rail. this is cross section one and two, and we want to make sure that it
aligned the same place. so let's moving to inside of the ring shank. the arrow
has to face the same direction, and we will have something like that
be really careful about this area. you do not want them to shape to fold it back
to itself which is happening right here. so the way to avoid it is you can make
this curve it's a little bit even smoother so that we can avoid it. so what
we gonna do is we are going to making a copy of this red color curve, and we are
making a copy from the point over here to the point over here. once we have a
copy. let's give it another try. we want to use a sweep two raild. you got rail one
rail two, and cross section one, cross section two. make sure they are aligned if
you are not so sure. Align them to inside of a ring shank. facing the same
direction and we will have something like that. now let's take a look if that
Fitting our engagement ring. it looks really well there, and if you need to get
them closer you can always adjust this curve there. to making the bottom of a
ring shank we are going to use sweep one rail, and this is the ring size. it's
going to be our rail, and we are going to choose this profile. in this profile we
are kind of coming over here to snapping into the midpoint one more time, and
let's go ahead to hit okay. all we need to do now is click on this one and this
one, and we want to join it together. that will be our matching band. another
thing that I like to do for decoration it has a milgrain on it. so I'm going
to extract the ISO curve, and we're gonna select this surface and snipping into
this endpoint, also this endpoint as well. we are going to make a really tiny
bead first for something like this, and make sure that you don't want your bead to stick
it out of the ring is because you might need to polish, buffing, and you might
buff off your ring. so what we like to do is under the array that you have array
along curve, and this is the object is going to be array along this curve right
here. we kind of need to guess how many we needed. I'm going to guess 160 of them
and you can take a look if you like this one if you feel like this is too much of
an overlapping you lose the bead quality. you want to undo and this time, we want
to do it a little bit less maybe we want to do 100 instead. then you will get your
milgrain over there. I want to group them temporary and also making a copy
from here holding my shift to get somewhere around here. so I don't have to
array along the curve again. there are a lot more that you can do for example you
can have a bead setting on it, and if you wanted to know how to do the bead setting
I have it at the member-only video playlist, and if you currently on the
membership program, don't forget to watch the second part. I will show you how to do the hand
engraving texture along with this band. thank you for watching please like and
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